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Use when positioning a World Politics manuscript against the comparative-politics and international-relations literatures so it reads as a contribution that travels across cases. World Politics expects engagement with both theoretical and substantive literatures; the move is to locate the paper in a live cross-case debate, not a single-country conversation. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

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# Literature Positioning (wp-literature-positioning)

World Politics expects every article to **engage with theoretical and substantive literatures** and to
draw conclusions of broad importance. Positioning is therefore not throat-clearing — it locates the
paper in a **comparative-politics or IR debate that crosses cases**, where the contribution is visible
to scholars beyond one country or region.

## When to trigger

- Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph
- A reviewer said you "missed obvious work" or "don't engage the debate"
- Your single-case literature is solid but the paper doesn't connect to a general debate
- You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior comparative/IR work
- Building a **review article**, where the literature *is* the object of analysis
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